Posted by Fall Guy from pool0441.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net on May 09, 2000 at 14:44:47:
In Reply to: also, how do the spikes retract, because they obviously caught Sopito(sp?) by suprise(nm) posted by German Mechanic on May 09, 2000 at 10:18:46:
Those spikes obviously deploy rapidly and have enough kinetic energy to skewer a human being. Some of that energy could easily be used to trigger a mechanism that will tension the trap anew. That process seems to take a while; maybe once the trap has been tripped water will flow in a large "bucket" that in turn will drop and slowly "wind" the trap. Fall Guy